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Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Top Tip Tuesday Challenge - Something New

Hi Crafters,
Thanks for joining me here today and I hope that you are well.
Today it is a new challenge at Top Tip Tuesday - Something New. It could be a new baby card, new home, using new stash or a new technique to you, so come and join in the fun.
Here is my card using some new stash that I won from The Ribbon Girl Facebook page giveaway and a new technique (for me anyway) - hand stitched edges.

I had great fun making the background using my distress inks. I pressed the ink pads on to my craft sheet and sprayed some water on to it until the colours merged. Then I laid my backing card on top and soaked up the ink, swirled it about a little and dried it with my heat tool. Using the stamp set I then inked a seahorse, shell, the small starfish﻿, some text and the word Beauty with the same colours of DI and randomly stamped them all over the background. Unfortunately I then covered up the seahorse with the cut-out seahorse :/ Again I sprayed water all over the card and the images began to blur and fade. After drying this again I sprayed it with the Perfect Pearls shimmer spray. When it was dry I stitched around the edges - this is my NEW technique for the challenge and my NEW piece of stash is the cheese cloth.
A peek at the inside where you can definitely see the all of the stamping technique.

Such a lovely image and love all your details too, the sentiment is fab :o) Hugs, Lisa x

PS. Chester would definitely be happier if he could be near me in the craft room, but it's just not big enough (or puppy proof!) for him... maybe when we have the conservatory/ extension added downstairs, there'll hopefully be space for him nearby then :o)

This is beautiful Lorraine! I'm glad you gave us a peek of the inside too, all the wonderful colours and stamping...fabulous!!

Thank you for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers and More for our 'Something Old, Something New' challenge and also for joining us at Try It On Tuesday for our 'Add Some Fabric' challenge! Hugs, Pamellia DT :)

A gorgeous card. Your handmade background is stunning and your image is very pretty. The seahorse, starfish and sentiment are beautiful embellishments and the hand stitching is lovely. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Cardmakers and more. Sally.x.

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